Pullman, WA · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain, and this place is a single county: Whitman County, Washington. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Pullman, WA, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Pullman, WA
Year
Total registered
2016
25,263
2018
28,150
2020
28,309
2022
28,347
2024
29,101
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+251 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −941 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Pullman, WA in Pullman, WA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−284
2012
+952
2013
−389
2014
−503
2015
+577
2016
+83
2017
−58
2018
−200
2019
−121
2021
−4,242
2022
+3,512
2023
−354
2024
−165
2025
+251
Home to Washington State University, Pullman's voting patterns skew heavily toward Democratic candidates — a sharp contrast to the surrounding wheat-farming counties where Republicans routinely post margins above 30 points.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.1 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 41.8 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.9 points.
A population of 47,003, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,406 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Laramie, WY and Boone, NC.
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In 2024, Pullman, WA, Washington voted Democratic by 8.9 points (D+8.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 20,027 votes cast, 10,480 went Democratic and 8,699 went Republican.
When did Pullman, WA, Washington last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Pullman, WA, Washington voted Republican was 2012.
How many people live in Pullman, WA, Washington?
Pullman, WA, Washington has a population of 47,003 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Pullman, WA, Washington?
Median household income in Pullman, WA, Washington is $55,406 — below the national median of $80,734. The Washington state median is $98,141.
What is the political history of Pullman, WA, Washington?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Pullman, WA, Washington from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
